competently

Example Sentences

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As one government source said: "People want to see us handle the foreign stuff competently but it's not really what people care about - they only vote on foreign affairs grounds in genuinely exceptional circumstances."

From BBC

That can be incredibly unsettling, especially to do-it-yourselfers used to handling finances competently on their own.

From Los Angeles Times

In a press release issued Friday, Wilson said the company’s transition announcement was a “tremendous failure by the Board to competently plan for the future and manage an effective succession process.”

From Barron's

“Beneficiaries of an estate can ask to remove a personal representative when they have demonstrated that they cannot competently manage estate affairs,” according to the Martin Law Office LLC.

From MarketWatch

I figured relearning would help me competently teach my daughter.

From The Wall Street Journal